Category: Boxing News

Former undefeated WBA super flyweight champion Alexander Munoz lost his title tonight at the Entertainment Center in Laredo, Texas, USA to Martin Castillo by a unanimous twelve round decision. Munoz was down twice in the fight and the judges scorecards eventually indicated that Castillo was a winner by a considerable margin. Castillo’s only loss came in his first world title bid against then IBF super flyweight champion Felix Machado. Munoz returns to Venezuela with his first defeat but Castillo, born in Mexico City will return home triumphant with a new professional record of twenty-seven wins, one loss with sixteen wins coming by knockout.

Former super middleweight world champion Eric Lucas was the star of the show tonight as he returned to action in the light heavyweight division by scoring a technical knockout over veteran American Tony Menefee. The American, just a few fights shy of compiling a one-hundred fight ledger complained vigorously to the referee who had stepped in early in the second round after Menefee was wobbled by some smart combination punching from Lucas.

On the undercard, South African Dingaan Thobela’s weight increase did not help him against Lucien Bute. The fight had to be resigned to a higher weight class after Thobela could not reach the contracted lower weight. However, Bute overcame the former world champion regardless and stopped Thobela in the fourth round.

In heavyweight action, Jean Francois Bergeron took a six round decision over Reynaldo Minus. Bergeron may look to target newly crowned Canadian heavyweight champion Patrice L’Heureux for his next fight.

Despite all his pre-fight bravado, Argentina’s Nazareno Ruiz was barely in the argument tonight in Edinburgh Scotland as native son ‘Amazing’ Alex Arthur scored his nineteenth win against a single loss with a widely scored unanimous decision. Arthur showed maturity and skill to navigate his way to the twelve round decision win which incredibly happens to be his first time doing so. Domestic action looms on the immediate horizon for Arthur and the mouth-watering prospect of a return fight with his only conqueror to date, Michael Gomez remains an attractive alternative. Gomez is currently the WBU super featherweight champion of the world. Arthur also retained his IBF super featherweight title with the victory.

Leva Kirakosyan, the Russian born fighter whose last fight was a losing effort in a WBU super featherweight title fight against Manchester’s Michael Gomez, returned to the UK in style tonight by knocking out Leeds born fighter Carl Johanneson in the first round. Johanneson who lives in and has fought most of his career in the United States was highly touted as a hot prospect before this loss and received good amounts of coverage in boxing magazines and websites alike. Kirakosyan, who now lives in Spain moves his record to fourteen wins and four losses while Johanneson drops to eighteen wins and two losses.

STAY TUNED FOR MORE RESULTS FROM THE UK TONIGHT.

The fight for the WBA featherweight championship between champion Chris John and challenger Jose Rojas ended suddenly in the fourth round when the two fighters clashed heads. Both fighters suffered bad cuts and were determined to be unable to continue to fight and as such the contest was called off. The fight was held in John’s native country of Indonesia and Rojas only received a shot at the title when initial challenger and former world champion Derrick “Smoke” Gainer pulled out of the fight due to reservations about the climate that would potentially affect his performance in the stadium. Juan Manuel Marquez is the WBA featherweight champion proper and also holds the IBF portion of the title.

Super middleweight contender Antwun echols withstood a fierce assault from his opponent Jameel Wilson in Northern Quest Casino in Airway Heights, Washington, USA tonight and stormed back to score a stoppage of his own in the seventh round. With the win, Echols remains as a viable super middleweight property for any and all contenders wishing to fight quality opposition. At thirty-two years of age it has been an eventful career for Echols so far with two of his five losses coming in world title attempts at middleweight against Bernard Hopkins and his most recent loss in a WBA super middleweight title defeat to Australia’s former champion Anthony Mundine. With the many super middleweight champions seemingly unwilling to fight one another, perhaps Echols can once again score some title action.